NewSchoolBoxer wrote:
Nordost Silver Screen HD, I looked this up. $200 for a 2 meter cable gets you pure silver 7N (99.99999%) 20 AWG, solid not stranded, "Dual Micro Mono-Filament" to allow mostly air as the dielectric. 16 Ohms per 1000 feet (5.3 from each cable) and less than -1.13dB per 100 meters (23% power loss), I assume at 6 MHz. Most luxury cable and specs I've ever seen. Copper cable at 100 meters of any thickness would be 100% power loss. Obviously much less at 2 meters.
To put this in perspective, I was reading an audio cable rage site a few days ago that said 5N is the max that can be proven in a laboratory for silver and 6N for copper. Air is supposed to be the best dielectric for audio but can't use in humid environment. Silver has 6% better conductivity than copper but can make copper thicker at 17 AWG to match ohmic losses. 20 AWG is very thick already when I see RGB tin-platted copper cable for sale with 26 AWG.
I have got a 1 Meter one, great component picture quality on a broadcast monitor. I don't use it too much these days though since now I almost completely have an RGB setup (either natively RGB or through modding) with RGB cables I got from Retro Access, but some things are still component-only, like for example S-Video transcoding to Component which I use the Nordost cable for (since my Broadcast monitor can't do S-Video).